Strand 2: 2.5 Home and Leisure

Resource: Beekman Chapter 6: Graphics, Digital Media and Multimedia

After you read this chapter you should be able to:

Explain the difference between painting software, image-processing software, drawing software, and 3-D modeling software
Explain effective techniques for improving the quality of slides prepared with presentation-graphics software
Explain the difference between analog video and digital video
Describe how data compression works
Describe several present and future applications for multimedia technology

After you read this chapter you should be able to:

Describe how computers have changed the way people work in factories, offices, homes, and a variety of industries
Describe several ways in which computers have changed the quality of jobs, both positively and negatively
Speculate on how our society will adjust as more and more jobs are automated
Explain how the information age places new demands on our educational system
Describe several ways computers are used in classrooms today
Discuss the advantages and limitations of computers as instructional tools
Describe the role of computers in our homes and leisure activities in the next decade

Homes and home networking (IT management of home systems: for example, lighting, security, entertainment centres)
Digital entertainment (Films, photographs, music, arts, online and digital games, gambling, virtual worlds)
Social networking (chat rooms, messaging, blogging, file sharing, wikis)
Published and broadcast information (Books, newspapers, digital radio and TV, e-Books, podcasts)
Digital policing (monitoring organisations such as the Recording Industry od America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) (the recent SOPA and PIPA examples)
Hardware, software and networking (Portable digital devices and their ability to remotely control other devices, IT enabled appliances)